Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489

[The_King]

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489 to the Dev Channel.

TL;DR

• We are beginning to slowly rollout a new “Your Microsoft account” settings page that will give you quick access to information related to your Microsoft account directly within Settings in Windows 11. We are beginning the rollout with a small set of Windows Insiders so you may not see this page right away.
• We are expanding on the DNS over HTTPS feature in Windows 11 by adding support for Discovery of Designated Resolvers – details below.
• We are releasing new SDK and NuGet packages for developers with this build – details below.
• Please read the known issues below. We’ve added a known issue for the Windows Update settings page that will impact how you check for updates on this build.
• FINAL Build Expiration Reminder: We have updated the build expiration for Dev Channel builds to be 9/15/2022. Previous Dev Channel builds from the RS_PRERELEASE branch will expire on 10/31/2021. To avoid hitting this expiration, please be sure to update to the latest Dev Channel build today.

Changes and Improvements

• We’ve added support for Discovery of Designated Resolvers which allows Windows to discover encrypted DNS configuration from a DNS resolver known only by its IP address. See this blog post for more details.
• To improve consistency, we’re updating the name of the Connect app to now be “Wireless Display”. This app is a feature-on-demand (FOD) and can be enabled by going to Settings > Apps > Optional features > Add an optional feature.
• We’re splitting up “Apps & Features” in Settings into two pages under Apps, “Installed Apps”, and “Advanced app settings”.
• In case you missed it last week, just a reminder that Windows Sandbox now works on ARM64 PCs!

Fixes

[Taskbar]

• App icons on secondary monitors should draw more reliably now instead of being blank.
• Stopped an explorer.exe crash that was happening sometimes when using the Desktops flyout context menu.
• Fixed an explorer.exe crash that was happening sometimes when dismissing the Desktops flyout.

[File Explorer]

• Pin to Quick Access is a top-level option now when right clicking a drive in File Explorer.
• We improved context menu launch performance.
• Made a few fixes to help improve explorer.exe reliability when using File Explorer.

[Windowing]

• Closing windows in Task View should look less jumpy now.
• Did some work to help address an issue that was causing flickering in the app window when resizing certain apps in recent Dev Channel builds.

[Settings]

• Addressed an issue that was causing Settings to crash in certain cases after going to Windows Update.
• Added a space that was missing in the search results when searching for Touch Keyboard settings.
• Fixed a Settings crash when trying to customize options in Wheel Settings.
• If animations are turned off, dismissing a notification using the X will no longer have an animation.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the media controls to not show up in Quick Settings sometimes when music was playing recently. Also believed to have impacted hardware media key usage.
• The tooltip for the Wi-Fi option in Quick Settings should no longer fly to the top of the screen.

[Other]

• Mitigated an underlying issue that was causing the Processes tab in Task Manager to be blank sometimes. This is also believed to be the same root cause causing UAC to open very slowly recently.
• Addressed an issue Xbox Game Pass games are failing to install with error 0x00000001.
• Fixed an issue where get-winevent in PowerShell was failing with an InvalidOperationException (Issue #60740).
• Mitigated a high hitting mousocoreworker.exe crash in the last few flights.
• Did some work to try and improve the layout of the text in notification buttons in cases where there’s both an icon and text.
• The Get Started app will no longer crash if the Tips app has been uninstalled.
• Fixed an issue causing some devices to bugcheck with SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCPTION when updating on previous builds.
• Made an underlying change to help fix an issue causing some users to see an unexpected “bad image” error message dialog on boot.

NOTE: Some fixes noted here in Insider Preview builds from the active development branch may make their way into the servicing updates for the released version of Windows 11 that became generally available on October 5th.

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22489 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR We are beginning to slowly rollout a new “Your Microsoft account” settings page

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